Winston Churchill High School - Chancellor Yearbook (San Antonio, TX)

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fig-mm Le, X Li! I ox f -L it Miss Cynthia Jennings keeps surveillance on her enslaved populace. When Winston doesn't con- form he is taken to Room 101, a detentionftorture chamber. Our 101 is headquarters for OCS, On Campus Suspension, under the supervision of Mrs. Marci Woolf. Could Peter Liske and Andrew Berez be using speakwriters to alter your history? Computer courses are offered on each grade level. liflill a 4 A111325 : SSK

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The first vision of 1984 came with George Orwell's novel, published thirty-six years ago. It was a book of dark predictions about a repressive government, an enslaved populace, and a plot of mind control involving a manipulated and manipulative language called NeWspeak. Other elements of mind control in Orwell's fic- tional dictatorship were truth tamper- ing which led to doublethink, and constant surveillance of party members by Big Brother via television. Torture was the method of eliminating dissenters. Speakwriters were used in the novel as storehouses for literature and communication, and those machines could alter history or delete information with the push of a button. Could 1984's black portrait really be our destiny? Will we have Newspeak, doublethink, and Big Brother? We have facsimiles already and enough similarities exist between the book and reality to frighten the in- secure and to make careful thinkers of all readers. It's 1984. . . agam Melissa Muro and Donny Couch help Mrs. Jean Schlater in keeping daily records. Mrs. Peg Dockery's students Duncan Cormie, Michelle McMurray, Lisa McDonough, Julie Blanda, Cher Kock, Stacy Pishon, Bill Thompson, Robin Thompson, Mark Spuller and Greg White do an assig ment in their enriched English classes.

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Computer! Television Takeover , Is 0rwell's 1984 to be ours? Certainly torture by brainwashing and physical means has been brought to world attention many times. Brain- washing of war prisoners, transforma- tional chemistry such as uppers and downers, mind-altering drugs such as LSD, and the Jewish holocaust of World War II are facts. Certainly the technology is available today for all the terrors described in 1984. We live in a computerftelevi- sion state. Citizens carry cards and documents which give personal infor- mation to computer files. Computers can make phone calls and answer them. They can help in identifying and cap- turing criminals. They can control traf- fic, teach children, and process news communication. And they can work hand in hand with television for security and surveillance. Security service is available through the TV cable com- panies whereby they can see the viewer and the home. Most banks and many stores use television cameras and screens to keep an eye on everyone in their search for possible thieves. Big Brother is watching. Mr. Robert McGinn helps Mark Ritter in com- puter class. Choir students rehearse their com- munications act for Palladium. This Key Club goal poster proves that Chargers are licensed to hunt the Marshall Rams.